I’ve been playing Guitar since June 2006. I’m self taught but I have learnt some ropes from my cousin, and have picked up some things from my friend Nikhil. You will find Nikhil and my collective work on this site under Music.
After about 3 years of musical adventures, Nikhil and I finally decided to convert our dream into a reality and in September of 2009, Iktara was born. After we noticed how our music and lyrics were reaching and touching the hearts of many across the world through the wonderful channel of social-websites, we realized that the time had come to officially launch ourselves in whatever humble way we can to spread the music around.
In June of 2010 this year, we plan to launch our first Official Digital Album. A preview of some of our songs may be seen at Iktara's website.
Meanwhile, feel welcome to provide your comments or criticism on some of my original work or covers.
While my pen has nothing to say for the timre-being, I would like to share couple of recordings with everyone. First one is a recording of India’s National Anthem by Nikhil
which he did yesterday. I like the classical touch in it and hope you all would enjoy it. The other one is an old [...]
It’s been chilly here in Mountain View for last few days (just the kind of weather I like). After almost more than a year of being immersed in the world of Urdu Poetry and Hindi Songs, I wrote something in English yesterday late afternoon and decided to give it a test run today. Wouldn’t really [...]
I wanted to try a Classical Guitar that I got from someone this week and decided to record this song by Jim Reeves. Recorded in early 60s, this song was a chart buster on UK charts right when Jim Reeves died in an Airplane Crash in 1964. My humble tribute to one of the greatest [...]
I was testing out a webcam today that I got at work and decided to record a famous folk song from the 60s called “Last thing on my mind”. I think the original was done by Tom Paxton sometime back in the 50s, but this is the Chad Mitchell Trio’s version, which was a major [...]
I wrote Goodbye back in June 2004 on a lazy summer afternoon while I was on phone with my friend Meena. I think Nikhil originally came up with this tune back in January 2007 last year. Here is a version he recorded today. The intro melody begins with D minor (the saddest chord!), and walks [...]
I wrote this revival version couple days after I wrote Sargoshiyan. I’m not sure if I’m using the correct term, but I pretty much revived the same tune in a slower and melancholy way. I guess when it’s time to say Goodbye, I can sing this song. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to record [...]
I scribbled this on the night of June 3rd a few days ago right around midnight. On advice of some friends, I decided to go ahead and record it. Still a few rough edges in there. I called it Sargoshiyan (Whispers) because I believe I did hear some whispers that night. Although what they were, [...]
It’s been a while since I did any karaoke. Here’s an old favorite Hindi song of mine by the mellifluous voice of yesteryears, Mukesh. It’s from a 1970 Hindi movie, My Love (Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore). I’m not sure how popular the movie was, but the song certainly was a hit, and I just re-discovered [...]
With my move to California, my jamming has reduced to weekend strumming especially with being a little busy at work and settling down and everything. With nothing much to say I thought we’d remember the old playing days and relive the magic of Keedy Night. Here is a Tom Petty song that Justin did during [...]
I went around exploring the area around Googleplex today on a G-Bike and took a 5 minute climb to a little hillock called Vista Slope on Amphitheatre Pkwy right behind the main Google Campus. For someone who’s been to the Himalayas, this certainly was no climb, but it was good to get some early morning [...]
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